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On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Eric S wrote:

> Free unix (al la Linux) is "eh" to me.  Its mostly crap in my opinion (I
> am a recent RHCE, already certified in everything known to man under Sun).

Eric, out your ear with it, Sun boy.

> What kind of Unix can only support 16 *logical* CPUs?  Crap, thats what,
> frilly, fluffy, crap.  Best left to desktops, not a real server. 
> (Remember kiddies, I deal with 104 CPU 1.5 Terrabyte of physical ram
> SERVERS, yeah, thats right, THAT is a SERVER, not some WINTEL crap that
> happens to have an open source OS on it).

Sounds like a mainframe to me.  We had one of those - took up about 4,000 
square feet of floor space, and needed its own substation to run it.  And 
what do we call Solaris for Intel, crap on crap? :)

> Enjoy your RedHat/SuSe/Mandrake/whatever....its under engineered, under
> supported silly crap. (often hacked too...remember Julie?  Root kits are
> fun!).

Eric, take a look at Sun's list of vulnerabilities for any version
released over the past 10 years and then repeat that sentence without
having your nose grow out of proportions... :)  Linux is not the only free
Unix out there, nor is it the best, but there's no Unix, free or
otherwise, that can claim to be free of vulnerabilities (even though 
OpenBSD has been free of remote vulnerabilities in the default install for 
7 years! :) )  Any OS when poorly administered is going to be a target - 
Linux and Windows are the biggest targets because they have the biggest 
install base.

Now lets get back to arguing about injector size and leave the OS wars for 
comp.os.my.penis.is.bigger.than.yours shall we?

Drew

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